[News/Television] [USA] Transgender Drama On Tap For Sundance

[Stephanie Stevens]

On Top Magazine, USA


Transgender Drama On Tap For Sundance

By On Top Magazine Staff

Published: November 12, 2012


Cabler Sundance Channel is developing a transgender drama simply titled T.

The network announced T as part of its upcoming 2013-2014 slate of
original scripted series.

“A deeply personal look at Terrence, a transgender male who has
recently undergone gender reassignment surgery and is beginning to
live life as a man,” the network said of the drama in a press release.
“Series cuts between Terrence's emotional struggle in the present and
his past as Thora – a lesbian, student activist at Mt. Holyoke College
circa 2005 struggling to find her true self.”

The show is written by Dan Futterman, who played Will's (played by
Eric McCormack) boyfriend in a four-episode story arc on the NBC
series Will & Grace and whose screenplay for Capote received an Oscar
nomination, and his wife, In Treatment producer Anya Epstein. This
American Life's Ira Glass and Alissa Shipp will produce.

T is one of five original series in development at the AMC-owned
Sundance Channel.

“These projects tell dynamic and visceral emotional stories that draw
on the best characters of our independent film roots, namely new kinds
of narratives that surprise you and unapologetically raw characters
who feel unlike anything you've ever seen before,” said Sundance
Channel General Manager Sarah Barnett.


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